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Barack Obama speaks out on Video Games

Barack Obama speaks out on Video Games

By: Alan Ng | February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments

When speaking to the country in a recent session of Congress, US President Barack Obama has found the time to mention Video Games as a growing problem in the US amongst all other things.

With the War still going on and the Global recession hitting the economy hard, Mr Obama still had a few words to say on the future of young children and the impact video games has on their education.

In a report over at Softpedia, the President explained, ”These education policies will open the doors of opportunity for our children. But it is up to us to ensure they walk through them. In the end, there is no program or policy that can substitute for a mother or father who will attend those parent/teacher conferences, or help with homework after dinner, or turn off the TV, put away the video games, and read to their child. I speak to you not just as a president, but as a father when I say that responsibility for our children’s education must begin at home.”

If parents cannot get through to their children on the effects of prolonged video gaming, maybe the President of the United States can perhaps. Well, Mr Obama seems to think so anyway. Let us know what you think of his comments.

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  • Lance

    Great, I am sure we will soon see President Obama Banning violent video games, or just any game in general he does not agree with. Our rights are slowly being taken away, and its all thanks to those who voted Democratic and Republican this year.

  • Andrew Yu-Jen Wang

    Speaking of Barack Obama:

    Barack Obama is a racial-minority individual, and he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.

    George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).

    George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.

    And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.

    Many people know what Bush did.

    And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.

    Bush was absolute evil.

    Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.

    Bush is a psychological prisoner.

    Bush has a lot to worry about.

    Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.

    In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.

    Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
    B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
    Messiah College, Grantham, PA
    Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

    “GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
    ______________________
    I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.